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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores topics related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in blended learning technology are empowering people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology organizations have to deal with today because learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can organizations certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Berklee College of Music to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders would like to understand these important new open education endeavours. Educators want to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this growing desire for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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